It was the labor of the majority that funded the trading expeditions, military conquests, and artisanal expertise responsible for the great works of art and architecture that we still admire today.

a garden party;    a garden path;    a garden spade

Most are associated with birds (although at least one hundred species deign to dine on mammalian body tissues); the majority of mallophagans on birds (and hence the majority of mallophagans in general) have a pair of well-developed claws on the tips of their tarsi.

Short and shy, he seems timid as he looks out through coke-bottle glasses. But for the past several years, 52-year-old astrophysicist Fang Lizhi has been China's best-known dissident - a relentless critic of the ruling Communist party